Monday, April 26 Presentations

In Emma’s presentation, it was a good idea for her to include the symptoms and diagnosis of depression. She definitely incorporated a lot of background information about depression which was very helpful. She focused on the correlation between depression and GPA, and I would suggest she possibly look into researching information about how college students with depression interact socially with other students. That could also be a factor as to the link between depression and GPA, maybe students who are depressed interact very seldom with their peers, somehow leading to a low GPA. Additional factors besides GPA could be incorporated by evaluating other indicators of academic performance.
I thought Joey’s topic of educational technology was extremely relevant to the present, since we are surrounded by so many technologies that are being increasingly used in education and school settings. If I were him I would try to highlight both the positive and negative impacts that recent technological advances have been affecting education. It was a good idea for him to define in his paper exactly what he meant by the word technology. To further his research, he could try to make a future approach or application to educational technology by finding reasonable ways for technology and traditional education to combine in order to get the benefits from each.
Katherine’s topic of the media’s influence on education during the Cold War was very different in relation to all of the other topics in class, because it deals with events from the past that have affected education. It was good that she incorporated information on educational reform including the improved access and additional universities and research facilities. She connected power and education in a very unique way through her use of explaining hegemony and what actually happened in the Cold War. Her presentation seemed to focus a lot on the history and not quite as much as on education. I’m not sure how much history she included in her paper, but I would add some more information on education and incorporate it so that the existing information relevant to education does not get lost in the history of everything.